Changing Earth Review Scavenger Hunt
Using appropriate websites, search for answers to the clues below. The answers can be found in the crossword puzzle below. Hint: many answers may be more than one word, but will be found in the puzzle as one long word.
Clues
1. The theory that describes the movement of Earth's continents.
2. Theory that describes the large scale motion of the Earth's outer shell.
3. Layers of the Earth's crust and rigid upper most part of the mantle.
4. Name of the man who hypothesized continental drift.
5. Sea-floor spreading is the occurring rapidly at the ______________.
6. The destruction of ocean crust.
7. The super continent that existed about 250 million years ago.
8. Mountains formed from the slow collision of two tectonic plates.
9. A crack in the Earth's crust.
10. The Hawaiian Islands were formed from magma coming through a _________.
11. The sudden release of energy caused from plate movement or volcanic activity.
12. An opening in the Earth's crust through which lava, ash, or gases are ejected.
13. Movement of plates occur along _________________________.
14. The circular movement of magma in the mantle that causes the tectonic plates to move.
15. Mountain type formed from magma rising from the mantle, pushing upward over time.
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